Thirty years ago, I worked with a woman named Hope Diamond.

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Anonymous wrote:Stella “it’s a family name”


ATE - if I had a thousand eyes I’d roll them all

Interesting, I don’t think of Stella as pretentious at all (nor do I have a kid named it, ftr!)

I have never known a Stella born to a family without a massive household income and family trust

Knew a stripper/“aerial silks teacher” with a toddler named Stella. So quite the opposite of pretentious, for me.

In San Francisco, right? I also know this family, ha. This tidbit is unfortunately very identifying.

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Anonymous wrote:Greyson
Greyson
Easton

lol, those are white trash names, not pretentious.

White trash / pretentious upper class: horseshoe theory of naming.

Jasper "JAS-puh"

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never met anyone with this name, but Anne-Marie/AnneMarie/Anne Marie as a double first name (NOT as a first and middle) feels overly pretentious to me (especially when hyphenated). Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Anne Marie was our Nannie’s first name. She was amazing w our kids.

Went on to open a daycare center.

I’ve never met anyone with this name, but Anne-Marie/AnneMarie/Anne Marie as a double first name (NOT as a first and middle) feels overly pretentious to me (especially when hyphenated). Can anyone confirm or deny this?

I went to UVA and a running joke was how pretentious the names of women in the ‘top’ (aka richest sorority) were. A third of them sounded like last names (Deering, Livingston), another third were two part names where people definitely want by both (Porter May, Alice Ann) and the last third were just odd (Law, Daffodil).

Gwyneth

Anonymous wrote:Paris.

That one’s just trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:caroline, alexandra, claudia

??? These seem like perfectly normal names to me.

Agree

Says the pretentious douche

You bumped a three year old thread to (poorly; learn the quoting feature) slap back at a dis on Caroline, Alexandra and Claudia? How insecure are you?

Yasir Urmajesty

Barron is probably in here already.

Sloan and Amelie

My takeaway from this thread is that no name is really pretentious but also that any name may be *deemed* pretentious if you don't like (or, I suspect, envy) the parents who gave the name.

Maxmillian